Some help for my upcoming project?

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Hey! I want to create a webapp where user load notes with external api and and application allow multiple user to collaborate on same note in real time, So my question is how do I add real time collaboration in my web app I never done this before?

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Here is some reading to get you started on your project.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/project-idea-collaborative-editor-framework-real-time/

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I don’t seen algorithm like this before, Do you know what the heck he trying to say in this article, I have only base Idea to use socket.io for my project but this tree like algo is really foreign to me

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You don’t need to understand the TreeOPT algorithm completely. He’s using it to account for all the possible document states and who wins a conflict of document state. You’re attempting a complex thing even though we have libraries and frameworks that hide the complexity. You should google about creating this type of software then write a plan. What are your assumptions? Write them down then breakdown them down into implementation steps.

Assertion:

  • All documents have one owner.

  • The owner has read and write privileges.

  • Everyone else has read privileges. Or do they? Maybe a document is totally private.

Conclusion: I need Authorization and Authentication.

Assertion:

  • Will the owner create a list of collaborators?

    Or

  • Will the owner send links to share access to collaborators?

  • Will editing always take place on owners copy?

    Or

  • Will collaborators be allowed a personal copy?

Conclusion:

  • Naive: If a list just grant Read and Write access.

  • If a link:

  • Link must identify document.

  • Link must also uniquely identify collaborator so write permission can be revoked on a individual basis.

  • links are tracked in a database.

Okay, I hope you get the idea. You should know that I didn’t just pull those points out of my head in that order. I started with three things then realized I needed sections. Next I grouped some things together and skipped around as I realized one thing affects another. You will too. Welcome to software development.

Hopefully you’ll do more searches on this topic. While searching for an article to get the conversation started, I found some open source projects that did similar things from which you might learn how things may be accomplished.

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Ok man! I understand, I will try to make most basic app using web sockets where two or more user collaborate on a document at same time then I try to add some more complex logic.
And one more request If you have time, Will you wanna be contribute in this project?

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Sorry I’m not at that level of Javascript

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Wow this is a good idea. I can’t help with anything tho :laughing: am no good in node.js. One day i wanna be so good that i can build this.

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